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Friday, June 22, 2012

Sepia Saturday challenges
bloggers to share family history through old photographs.

The Trylon & the Perisphere were the symbols of the fair.

The
1939 - 40 Worlds’ Fair was held in New York City. The theme was ‘Building the
World of Tomorrow.’ My mother, Alberta Joy Gardner, went to the fair on more than one occasion. Her
mother and her mother’s sisters took her to see the exhibits. She was amazed by
everything she saw there. Twenty five years later she took my brothers and I to
see the ‘Peace Through Understanding’ World’s Fair in her old home, New York
City. We were just as enchanted by the exhibits and rides and the vision of the
future as she had been.

13 comments:

My great-aunts Violetta and Velma went to the 1940 World's Fair. Your post reminds me that I have their travel brochure from Greyhound. Darn! I could have used that for my Sepia Saturday post. I love your mother's socks.

Your mom looks like the plucky heroine of a children's book! The '39 fair was the one to go to, from what I've read. But we might have brushed shoulders in the throng attending the '64 fair. Reading the other comments reminds me of the Wisconsin State Fair that I attended with my husband about 1993. Best cream puffs I've ever had.

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